Being A Good Friend

 

Good citizens are good friends.

We found out that good friends :

• are helpful
• play nicely
• are kind
• say nice things to each other

 
 
 

Here are some drawings that we
made of ourselves and our best friends.

Being Helpful

 

 

This week we have learnt how to be a good citizen by being helpful.

 

 

We all have jobs to do at school every day. Some of our jobs are:

 

• putting the chairs up
• Getting the lunches
• Giving out the fruit
• being the teacher's helper
• tidying the class library
• cleaning the classroom
• taking the lunch bin outside

 

We enjoy doing our jobs.

Tyson is our helpful door monitor.

 

 

 

Arani and Bailey-Rae are putting out the lunch bin.
 

Angel and Matheus are the chair monitors.

Term 2 Reading

 

This Term we are learning how to work out new words by ourselves. We look at the first letter and say the sound. Next we look at the last letter.

 

 

We like doing our activities. We buddy read our book. We read books from our book boxes. We also read our word cards.

 

 

We are reading Red and Emergent books.

Daises are reading from their book box.

 

 

Roses are reading their basic words from their word box.

Welcome to Term 2

 

 

We have new people in our class this Term, so here is a new photo of us all.

 

This Term we are learning how to be good citizens. We have learnt that a citizen is a person who lives in a town, or a city, or a country. We are all citizens of Auckland City and we are all citizens of New Zealand. We are also citizens of the World.

At the moment we are learning what a good citizen is. Join us again in a couple of weeks and we will tell you all about  what we have learnt.



Written English

Learning Intention: We are learning how to write our stories by ourselves.

Success Criteria: We will know we can do this when we can:-

• write our name correctly
• draw a clear picture for our plan 
• miss lines
• leave finger spaces between words
• copy words off our word cards
• write some words and beginning letter sounds by ourselves
• publish our work carefully and neatly

This Term we have been writing recounts about things that we have been doing at home and at school. We also learnt how to write a retell. As part of our Inquiry about the Treaty of Waitangi we learnt about the Maui stories. Our favourite was Maui and the Sun, so we wrote our retell about that story.

Here are three of our stories.



Inquiry Term 1 2014

 

Make Your Mark.

 

I make my promise, I keep my promise.

 

What makes a strong partnership?

This Term Room 3 learnt about the Treaty of Waitangi . We looked at videos of Waitangi Day celebrations and at photos that showed what the signing ceremony might have looked like.

We then made our own Class Treaty. A treaty is a promise and we all promised to keep our Class Treaty. To help us do this we designed our own flag and then had a ceremony where we signed our Class Treaty. We lay the Treaty on our class flag just like they lay the Treaty of Waitangi on the British flag. Then we all signed it.  Here are Bailey-Rae and Shylay signing our Class Treaty.

We also made a promise to come to school every day and we have been very good at keeping this promise.

We learnt that The Treaty of Waitangi is also about partnership. We made a promise to learn our school haka and our school song 'Pepeha'. These photos show us learning the haka. Our partners from the Senior School came every day for a week to help us learn the haka. They were very good teachers and we are very grateful that they helped us.  These photos show us practising the haka.

 

 

 

Learning the haka helped us learn that being a good partner is about working together.  

Reading in Room 3

 

Our learning intention is to learn to read by ourselves.

 

We will know we can do this when we;

 

• know our letter names
• know our letter sounds
• know our basic words off by heart

We need to practise reading our books and our words every day. Thank you parents, caregivers and brothers and sisters for helping your child with their reading.

 

We like reading in Room 3. Reading is fun and we learn lot

 

 

Here the Lilies are learning their letter names.

 

 

 

 

We do buddy reading every day after our group lesson with the teachers.